Personal Cinema Series - Jon Behrens

Saturday, June 12th 2010, 20-22h
Millennium Film Workshop
66 East 4th Street, New York, USA

For more than 30 years, Seattle-based artist Jon Behrens has worked completely outside of the mainstream conception of what filmmaking is. He began to make films as a teenager in the late seventies, starting with his Grandfather’s Wollensak regular 8mm camera and then moving to 16mm shortly thereafter. Since the age of 16 Behrens has made well over 100 films of various lengths, subject matters and approaches, from documents of the early Seattle punk rock scene to poetic film experiments in which the celluloid film stock has been manipulated. Over the years Jon has screened his films nationally and internationally, and has been called one of the Northwest’s most prolific filmmakers.

Program:
- The production and decay of strange particles (7½ min., 2008)
- Undercurrents (10 min., 1994)
- The Astrum Argentium (6 min., 2006)
- All Saints Day II (5 min., 2002)
- Stan’s salon (3 min-1997)
- Fluffy Fluffy Calm Calm (10 min., 1998)
- Anomalies of the unconscious (12 min., 2003)
- Vernal obeisance (6 min., 2003)
- The flickering of the mind’s eye (10 min., 2001)

Admission $8/$6 members